Civilization in the West, Vol. B [Textbook Binding]

Mark A. Kishlansky (Author), Patrick Geary (Author), Patricia O'Brien (Author), Mark Kishlansky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 2000

Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life. The authors tell a compelling story of Western Civilization that is enhanced by an image-based approach. Pictorial chapter openers draw students in by illustrating a dominant theme of the chapter and exploring the dramatic impression each image makes in reinforcing that theme. The presentation of geography guides students around the changing contours of the West through both standard maps and Geographic Tours of Europe. The greater number of maps and tours combine to make this text the strongest possible program for teaching historical geography (151 total maps, as compared to Chambers, the second highest, at 106). The addition of Discovering Western Civilization Online (new end-of-chapter website URLs) makes this the first Western Civilization book to date to include these resources.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Civilization in the West, Fourth Editionmasterfully blends the social and political history of western civilization into a fascinating narrative. Maintaining a chronological framework, the authors' narrative brings political, cultural, and social history to life, enhanced by vibrant images, clear maps, and exquisite reproductions of art-an effective and exciting combination for exploring the complete story of western civilization.MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in the history of western civilization.Previous ISBNs: 0-321-00285-7

About the Author

Mark Kishlansky
Mark Kishlansky is Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of English and European History and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Harvard University. Before joining the Harvard Faculty he taught for sixteen years at the University of Chicago where he was a member of the Committee on Social Thought. Professor Kishlansky is a specialist on seventeenth-century English political history and has written, among other works, A Monarchy Transformed, The Rise of the New Model Army and Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England. From 1984­1991 he was editor of the Journal of British Studies. He is currently writing a history of the reign of Charles I entitled The Death of Kings.

Patrick Geary
Holding a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University, Patrick Geary has broad experience in interdisciplinary approaches to European history and civilization. He has served as the Director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame as well as Director for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA where he is currently Professor of History. He has also held positions at the University of Florida and Princeton University and has taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the University of Vienna. His many publications include Readings in Medieval History; Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World; Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages; and Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium.

Patricia O'Brien
Between 1995 and 1999, Patricia O'Brien worked to foster collaborative interdisciplinary research in the humanities as director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Since 1999, she has held the position of dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. She has held appointments at the University of California, Irvine, Yale University, and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Professor O¹Brien is a specialist in modern French cultural and social history and has published widely on the history of crime, punishment, cultural theory, urban history, and gender issues. Representative publications include The Promise of Punishment: Prisons in Nineteenth-Century France; "The Kleptomania Diagnosis: Bourgeois Women and Theft in Late Nineteenth-Century France" in Expanding the Past: A Reader in Social History; and "Michel Foucault's History of Culture" in The New Cultural History, edited by Lynn Hunt.

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Product Details

• Textbook Binding: 480 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley; 4 edition (July 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321070909
• ISBN-13: 978-0321070906
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,620,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, February 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Civilization in the West, Volume I (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

This book is everything a great history book should be. The authors go into the details of history and enhance the text with actual stories and excerpts from historical references, that makes one feel that they are there, in that point of time. Images the mind forms as a result, help you remember events, making it easier to put different historical periods in context. I highly recommend this book to any student or person interested in learning about our past and ourselves.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Civilization in the West, by Kishlansky, Geary, O'Brien, February 23, 2000

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Dana David (Las Cruces, NM) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Civilization in the West, Volume I (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

This book is a cornucopia of detail. It is undeniably the most detailed of any textbook on the subject. Unfortunately, this otherwise useful textbook suffers from poor if not outright negligent editing. Some paragraphs are virtually incomprensible. The text reads as if the individual authors took turns writing sentences. The concept of topic sentences and paragraphs expressing discrete subjects seems to have been lost on the authors as well as the editors.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent survey of western history, December 12, 2003

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"bab34" (Boulder, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Civilization in the West (Hardcover)

Civilization in The West is a superb text. Written by an outstanding group of historians the book is highly readable and contains a wealth of information. The suggestions for additional reading at the end of each chapter are invaluable and list the key texts for any time period. Finally, the colorful illustrations and photographs brilliantly compliment the text. This book is a definite buy for anyone interested in a general guide to western civilization.